Senior Software Engineer, Platform

About GlossGenius

GlossGenius is building an ecosystem enabling entrepreneurs to succeed.  We empower small business owners to focus on being creators, not admins, by offering a range of business management tools including booking and scheduling, marketing, analytics, payment processing and much more.

Over 90,000 small business owners have chosen to rely on GlossGenius every day to run their entire set of business operations. Joining its powerful, intuitive platform with its vibrant, distinguished brand, GlossGenius is the ideal combination of a fintech, SMB software, and consumer company all in one.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Application Platform team, you'll be at the heart of the developer experience at GlossGenius. We're looking for an engineer who is passionate about building the shared frameworks, core services, and foundational tooling that empower our product teams to build better and faster. You will help us distill complexity into simple, elegant solutions that allow our engineers to focus on what matters most: delivering value to our customers.

The Application Platform team's mission is to provide a bedrock of stable, scalable, and easy-to-use services. We treat our platform as a product, and our fellow engineers are our customers. Your work is critical to ensuring our systems can support our rapid growth, which already includes billions in transaction volume across tens of thousands of businesses.

This role can be based remotely in the San Francisco Bay Area OR Hybrid in our NYC headquarters (Tuesdays & Thursdays in-office).

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and operate the next generation of critical backend services and distributed systems that form the foundation of our products. You will evolve our core platforms to the next level of scale and reliability.
• Turn ambiguous problems into concrete, delightful developer experiences. You will streamline our services by improving CI/CD, standardizing observability, and enhancing our feature flagging system to reduce risk.
• Own projects end-to-end, from technical design through implementation and rollout. You'll make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
• Partner closely with product engineering, infrastructure, security, and design teams to co-create solutions. You will act as a force-multiplier, mentoring other engineers and championing best practices in everything you do.
• Uphold best practices and high standards for engineering and product quality in addition to mentoring newer team members to do the same.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on designing, building, and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Deep technical proficiency in backend development, ideally with Kotlin and TypeScript. A willingness to learn and work with Ruby is also important as we modernize our stack.
• A passion for great API design and amazing developer experiences. You see other engineering teams as your customers and are driven to build tools and services that accelerate their work.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional technology initiatives and influencing technical roadmaps. You can break down large-scale projects and partner effectively with stakeholders to deliver results.
• You thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, have a bias for action, and a commitment to continuous improvement for yourself and the team around you.

What We Work With

We are open to candidates who have worked in different languages but are open to learn.

• Languages: Kotlin, TypeScript, Ruby (Rails, Sidekiq)
• Frameworks & Technologies: gRPC, Protobuf, Postgres, micronaut, jooq

Benefits & Perks 

• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums partially or fully covered by GG
• In-person opportunities that are designed to help team members foster collaboration and build community (ie; working out of a co-working space, team dinners, and other team building activities)
• Fertility and adoption benefits via Carrot
• Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
• 401k benefit - employees are eligible to contribute starting day 1 of employment
• Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Dependent Care FSA
• Home office support

The starting base salary for this role in New York, California, and Washington is between $160,000-$210,000+ target equity + benefits. The base salary offered is dependent upon many factors including skills, experience, location, and education. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.  Additionally, this role is currently eligible to participate in GlossGenius’s equity plan as well as a range of health & wellbeing, retirement savings, and other benefits within our total rewards offering.

At GlossGenius, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. We believe this benefits not only our employees but our product, customers, and community as well. GlossGenius is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.